Test your knowledge of snakes, which were among the Pennsylvania wildlife featured in this week's Claws, Wings & Other Things column in The Patriot-News.

1. Which of the following is not among the many methods snakes use to have babies?
A. Lay eggs and abandon them to hatch on their own.
B. The female carries eggs in her body until they hatch and then gives birth to the babies.
C. Lay eggs and return later to care for the babies.
D. Lay eggs and then carry them around in the mouth until they hatch.

2. Which sense is the least used by snakes?

3. True or false? Every time a snake sticks out it tongue, chemical information is being collected for an organ in the roof of its mouth that analyzes the information to help the snake determine a course of action.

4. In Pennsylvania there are A. 7, B. 14, C. 21 or D. 28 native species of snakes.

5. Black rat snakes and milk snakes, two native Pennsylvania species, employ a method of killing their prey more commonly associated with larger, jungle species of snakes. Can you guess that method?